Vimy is a 4 letter English word.
You can make 22 anagrams from letters in Vimy (imvy).
The bloodiest battle of 1917 was fought on the slopes of Vimy Ridge.
They came from the Canadians at75 Vimy Ridge, and were full of their praises.
Yes, Vimy was the most tactically spectacular: One of the best-planned, best-executed Allied operations of the whole war.
That is what Vimy means—what Arras means—in the fighting of last year.
But the exclusive attention to Vimy obscures other Canadian achievements even more deserving of honour.
They had been shelled all the way from Vimy and were so "all in" that they didn't care what happened.
In the First World War they captured and then defended Vimy Ridge on the Western Front, albeit at a terrible cost in lives.
Her grandfather was decorated for gallantry at Vimy Ridge and went on to found the Canadian armored corps.
Vimy fully deserves the honour it carries in the national memory.
If Arras and Vimy had not held, things would have been grave indeed.